Susi Seibt is a Research Scientist in the Vascular Biophysics team at CSL, a Superstar of STEM, member of the Homeward Bound 8 cohort and an edutainer. Susi’s research involves the development of microfluidic devices mimicking human blood vessels and organs to enable drug development as a crucial step for in vitro drug trials. These flow-based devices function as non-animal organ models and blood assays for the investigation of CSL assets where flow effects could impact therapeutic function.

Before joining CSL, Susi acquired extensive microfluidics and scattering expertise as a beamline scientist at ANSTO. She used microfluidics as a platform for many applications, from fast chemical kinetics, over hydrogen storage to thrombi formation and bioreactors to mimic human bone marrow. Her expertise includes the design and implementation of confocal microscopy-based imaging of reactions under flow and following structural changes using X-ray scattering.

She has always been a passionate science communicator, leading her to start her own science Youtube channel “Shelium” to ‘edutain’ the public.